Becoming a Green Community Informational Meeting

Worthington is seeking to be designated a Massachusetts Green Community. Learn more at this informational meeting.

The Green Community Designation and Grant
Program provide a road map along with financial and technical support to
municipalities that:

1) Pledge to cut municipal energy use by an
ambitious and achievable goal of 20 percent over 5 years

2) Meet four other criteria established in the
Green Communities Act.

Participation in the Program has grown steadily
since the first group of 35 municipalities achieved designation status in July
of 2010 to include more than half of the diverse cities and towns of the
Commonwealth and nearly two-thirds of the population. The benefits of
designation extend beyond the program itself, inspiring cities and towns to
undertake additional energy-related initiatives, improve coordination between municipal
staff and departments and increase messaging with the public at large about
energy-related issues and actions.

Benefits of Being a Green
Community

Cut municipal energy costs and strengthen the local economies

Access grants for clean affordable and resilient energy
projects; economic development benefits for the city or town and the
Commonwealth

Reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Promote energy-efficient building construction that drives
the market for better built and lower cost homes

Foster renewable energy and clean energy technologies

Become a clean energy leader and a better place to live,
work, and play